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Massive sinkhole opens up near World Cup stadium in Brazil


BBC
Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:59 UTC
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Residents have been evacuated from a favela near one of Brazil's World Cup stadiums, after a huge sinkhole opened up.

Footage shows partially-collapsed homes perched on the edge of the crater in Natal, already filled with household appliances, furniture and vehicles.

The hole is four miles (6.5km) from the Arena das Dunas stadium, which will host the Group D match between Italy and Uruguay on Tuesday.

The sinkhole opened up earlier this week after record rainfall, but has continued to grow since.

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Sinkhole half swallows truck in Mississauga, Canada

David Paterson
Brompton Guardian
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 08:09 UTC
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When this happens to your truck, you know you're having a really bad day.
A driver doing some errands had a nasty surprise Saturday morning when a sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath the truck he was driving.

The man, an off-duty police officer, had just picked up some garden furniture from an outlet in a office complex on Ambler Dr. As he was making his way out of the parking lot, he drove through what appeared to be a small puddle.

It turned out to be something much worse.

As he drove over it, the ground beneath his wheels gave way, tipping the truck into a five-foot-deep sinkhole that rapidly started filling with water.

The driver managed to get himself out of the truck and nobody was injured.

Police, fire crews and tow trucks were called to try to pull the stricken vehicle out of the hole.

Firefighters on the scene said that a water pipe beneath the surface appeared to have ruptured and caused the sinkhole to form.
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25 foot deep sinkhole threatens to swallow Muskingum County homes, Ohio

Mary Beth Lane
The Columbus Dispatch
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:15 UTC
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Mine subsidence caused this sinkhole in Muskingum County. Authorities will try to pull Mike Lane’s home to safety today. Meanwhile, Lane and his family aren’t allowed into the home to retrieve belongings.
A sinkhole that threatens to swallow someone's home in a former mining area doesn't come along that often, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources official says.

But when it does, it's a doozy.

The department, which regulates mining and abandoned mines, has workers at the scene of a 25-foot-deep, half-acre-wide sinkhole that has opened on a small country lane near White Cottage in Muskingum County.

A state-hired contractor will try again today to carefully pull Mike Lane's mobile home back along Stiers Lane before it slides into the sinkhole that opened on Wednesday. The effort was aborted yesterday because the ground was too wet from recent rains.

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Gigantic sinkhole near Eden Prairie, Minnesota home forces demolition


kare11.com
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:29 UTC
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The Eden Prairie City Council has ordered the demolition of a home that sits on the edge of a huge sinkhole that was caused by Sunday's massive downpours.
Sunday's epic rain event will force the demolition of a home in Eden Prairie that is now perched on the edge of a gigantic sinkhole.

The Eden Prairie City Council voted in an emergency meeting early Monday to adopt a resolution ordering the demolition and removal of the structure located at 11201 Burr Ridge Lane. The emergency meeting was called after the residence was declared uninhabitable due to the imminent risk of failure and collapse from damage sustained during yesterday's rain event.

"It's pretty surreal," says homeowner Revie Zurn. "It's all of a sudden we're moving out stuff out and trying to start somewhere else."

Heavy rains caused the land between homes at 11201 and 11211 Burr Ridge Lane to give way and slide down into the Purgatory Creek valley. Prior to this event, the City of Eden Prairie had contracted with SEH (Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc.) and NWA (Northwest Asphalt) to repair the stormwater sewer system serving the neighborhood, a project that was still in progress when the downpours struck. .

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Signs of change: Video round-up of extreme weather and seismic activity in May 2014

HawkkeyDavis
YouTube
Sun, 01 Jun 2014 08:59 UTC
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Record flooding in the Balkans last month
Large scale disasters continue to strike with regularity, causing catastrophic damage to multiple areas around the globe, and leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Rare, strange, unusually extreme and 'biblical' weather conditions have taken place the past week or so. Also included are some dramatically breathtaking weather events caught on video last month.

Thanks for watching and stay safe! Have a plan in order!

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Huge 16ft wide sinkhole uncovered by highways engineers in Somerset, UK

Charlotte Wareing
Daily Mirror, UK
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:04 UTC
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Sinking: A gaping chasm measuring 16ft wide in Somerset
The road workers were expecting to find a small dent in one of Somerset's roads but were instead faced with a real sinking feeling

Road workers got more than they bargained for when the pothole they were sent to inspect turned out to be a gaping chasm 11ft deep.

The giant sinkhole - which measured 16ft wide, was found by workers at Somerset County Council.

The huge pit was so deep it needed 200 tonnes of stone to fill it before draining and resurfacing works could take place.

Harvey Siggs, cabinet member for highways at Somerset County Council, said it was unclear what caused the massive hole.
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Large sinkhole opens up in Jonesville, Florida

Morgan Watkins
The Gainesville Sun
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:28 UTC
Jonesville Sinkhole
© Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun


A sinkhole has opened up in a field near Newberry Road in Jonesville.

A large sinkhole has opened up near the Campus USA Credit Union near Newberry Road in Jonesville, although Alachua County Environmental Protection Director Chris Bird said he doesn't have much information on the situation yet.

Bird said he heard the sinkhole is located on a private property that may be a farm near the credit union but doesn't know for sure yet.

At this point, he is waiting to get a field report from an EPD employee who has headed out to look into the matter.
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Indiana sinkhole swallows car with 4 people


Evansville Courier & Press
Fri, 30 May 2014 10:01 UTC
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© Kevin Swank, The Evansville Courier & Press
Timothy Stone , of Evansville, said that he and three passengers were in a car heading east on West Oregon Street at Main Street in Evansville, when they stopped for stop sign and then the car “felt weird” and started to sink They were able to get out of the passenger side of the car, and then the front of the can went down into the hole. No one was injured. Allen Mounts, director of the Water & Sewer Utility, said the cave-in was caused by the collapse of a 72-inch sewer. A six-inch water main was also broken in the collapse. Two wreckers were used to remove the car from hole, which an Evansville police report described as 12 feet in diameter and 16 feet deep.
Using two wreckers, employees with Tri-State Towing managed to remove a 2003 Ford Taurus from a sinkhole at West Oregon Street and Main Street in Evansville on Friday afternoon.

Timothy Stone, of Evansville, said that he and three passengers were in a car heading east on West Oregon Street at Main Street in Evansville, when they stopped for a stop sign and then the car "felt weird" and started to sink.

They were able to get out of the passenger side of the car and then the front of the car went down into the hole. No one was injured.

Allen Mounts, director of the Water & Sewer Utility, said the cave-in was caused by the collapse of a 72-inch sewer. A six-inch water main was also broken in the collapse. Two wreckers were used to remove the car from hole, which an Evansville police report described as 12 feet in diameter and 16 feet deep.

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Sinkhole develops in parking lot in Winter Haven, Florida

Cody Dulaney
The Ledger
Thu, 29 May 2014 11:16 UTC
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The sink hole is about 5 feet deep and 30 feet wide, however police say the parking lot continues to buckle in areas out from the hole.
A possible sinkhole has developed in a Publix supermarket parking lot across from the entrance to Legoland and continues to spread.

The hole is approximately 30 feet wide and 5 feet deep, said Jamie Brown, spokeswoman with the Winter Haven Police Department.

Cracks and ripples in the pavement show it continues to spread farther away from the hole and toward Cypress Gardens Boulevard, Brown said.

Police and fire personnel are at the Publix, 6031 Cypress Gardens Blvd., ensuring public safety if the hole continues to open, Brown said.

Geologists are on their way to the scene to determine if it is a sinkhole and how big it is.

The parking lot is private property for the shopping center that houses Publix, K-Mart and several other outlets. Police have not evacuated anyone from the area and stores continue to remain open. No injuries have been reported.
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Second sinkhole opens up in Newcastle, Australia


The Guardian
Wed, 28 May 2014 07:27 UTC
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The first sinkhole, in Swansea Heads, near Lake Macquarie.
New, smaller hole opens two doors away from 20m by 10m crater above old coalmine in NSW's Hunter region

A second sinkhole has appeared in an upmarket neighbourhood south of Newcastle, prompting fears more land could collapse into an old mine shaft that appears to have caused the erosion.

The first sinkhole, measuring up to 20m wide and 10m deep, developed on Tuesday night next to a three-storey home on Lambton Parade in plush Swansea Heads, near Lake Macquarie.

A husband and wife returned to their seaside property about two hours after the hole developed next to their front deck, swallowing tonnes of dirt and debris.

A second, smaller sinkhole developed on Wednesday morning in the front garden of a property two doors down. It measured about two metres across.

The area beneath the street was once part of the Swansea pit, a coalmine abandoned in the 1950s. The Mine Subsistence Board is now leading an investigation into the sinkholes, including checks to ensure the stability and structural integrity of surrounding homes.
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